Dave Beech

artist, writer, and curator, London

Dave Beech is an artist in the collective Freee as
well as a writer and curator. Currently, he is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at
Chelsea College of Arts, London. As an artist, he has exhibited at the Istanbul
Biennial in 2013 and the Liverpool Biennial in 2010. Beech has contributed to
debates on participation and art’s publics, and the legacy of the avant-garde
and conceptualism in books such as Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (2015); Art and Text (2011); Locating the Producers: An End to the Beginning, the Beginning of the End (2011); and Curating the Educational Turn (2010).
Beech is a co-founding editor of the journal Art and the Public Sphere,
co-founder of The Internationaler magazine, and joint founding
editor of The First Condition. With Paul O’Neill, he also
co-curated, the exhibition We Are Grammar at Pratt Manhattan
Gallery, New York in 2011. His book Art and Value (2015)
is an extensive study of the exceptionalism of art in classical, neoclassical,
and Marxist economics. Beech lives and works in London. [Last updated 2016]